International Business Internship Program

All attendees of the International Leadership and Business Summit (ILBS) are offered entrance into Leadership Initiatives’ International Business Internship Program (IBIP). IBIP is designed to inspire and promote the efforts of high school students to take charge of their futures while creating global change. In doing so, LI creates a new generation of leaders who have both a greater understanding and depth of experience in international development.

The work students perform during the ILBS is expanded when they enroll in the IBIP program. Like the ILBS, these students are partnered directly with small business owners in developing communities to help solve issues facing their business. Over the course of 12-24 months, students each fulfill specific leadership roles within the team and collaborate with business owners, learn to promote their work on local and national media outlets and have access to mentors in their professional fields of interest.

Students learn about the intricacies of nonprofit organizations and facilitate fundraisers to help a new business in a developing country. In effect, the program is fostering cross-cultural collaboration that helps strengthen developing leaders in both nations. LI’s IBIP benefits the development of students’ character, motivation and drive for the future. Once in the program, many additional opportunities become available to participating high school students, including SAT/ACT test preparation, college, and scholarship application assistance, letters of recommendation and more.

Two Years of International Development Experience

The single greatest accolade students can have when applying for college is an experience that sets them apart from their peers. Students who participate in the International Business Internship Program will have 12-24 months of experience helping to create new businesses and expand growing businesses in a developing country.

Students will learn about the local resources available to their business partners and how to effectively use those resources to solve problems facing the businesses. Students are each designated a specific leadership role within their IBIP teams, which include: facilitating college planning, fundraising, communications and public relations, or project management. Furthermore, they also gain an opportunity to meet and network with other top high school students and business/community leaders.

Alumni of IBIP have written essays for college applications about creating new feeding methods for fish farms in Birshi, developing new water purification methods, teaching new welding techniques and increasing profits for a textile shop with advances advertising techniques–just to name a few.

Personalized College Acceptance Probabilities

When applying to colleges, most students make a list of their dream schools. A few people go a step further and look up the requirements for actually getting into these schools. Even then, it is still a mystery as to the likelihood of being accepted into that number one college of choice.

We decided to take the guess work out of it. Our partners at Parchmenthave come up with a system personalized to each student as they get ready to begin their college journey.

Parchment takes the applicant’s desired schools along with test scores, GPA, and other pertinent information and compares it to the gold standard for being accepted into a chosen school. It shows percentages of who is admitted and provides comparable schools that have similar standards along with other school choices that may be more likely to grant admittance.

Speak With Four Experts In The Field(s) Of Your Choice

LI immerses the next generation of student leaders with experts in four fields of their choice, allowing students to gain invaluable insight into future potential careers from a variety of industry leaders.

These leaders have decades of experiences that inspire and empower students to create their own opportunities by seeing how today’s’ leaders accomplished their goals.

During the mentoring program, we provide students with a variety of touch points both before and after mentoring sessions and create lines of communication that allow for students to continue to communicate with and grow from the experts with whom they have worked.

During and after the program, Leadership Initiatives writes letters of recommendation, serves as a reference to top students and continues to encourage students to practice entrepreneurship through engaging projects and experiences.

We currently have over 400 mentors and experts that work for NASA, Capitol Hill, the FBI, Secret Service, Pentagon, multiple law firms, National Institute of Health, top financial institutions, businesses and communications firms and many, many more. Their fields of expertise range from designing satellites to criminal psychology.

Unlimited College Essay & Scholarship Application Assistance

As students progress through high school, they will explore potential career interests, college opportunities and scholarship options. When students enroll in the International Leadership and Business Summit, they are awarded five college application essay reviews in addition to three scholarship application reviews.

Those who elect to become a part of the IBAP program may request unlimited reviews for both categories. (In addition, any students who become IBAP teammates will receive this added benefit.)

This review includes the following:

Your application will be edited to ensure you make an excellent impression at every stage of the most competitive admissions process. Our editors will expertly improve the style, clarity, sentence structure and coherence of your application so that your achievements are noticed. To ensure language errors do not keep you from achieving your ambitions, every section of your university application will be carefully proofread to eliminate any mistakes in grammar, punctuation, spelling and more.

Our editors will help you tailor your application to suit your chosen program. We are equipped with experience in editing applications from diverse branches of Science and Technology, Commerce, Management, and the Humanities and Social Sciences. Your application will be edited with an understanding of the expectations of different academic faculties.

Most importantly, our professional editors will work with you to tell your personal story to those who need to hear it the most!